Skyping with Collab Nation
Today, Friday 13th June, we participated in a show and tell video conference on skype with Collaboration Nation. It was great to see the people from Collab to come in after school. The time for us was 10:00am but for them it was like 8:00pm on THURSDAY night not FRIDAY! We learnt so much from them such as: They have a place where you can buy donuts called Duncin’s donuts, they are really into baseball like we’re into AFL, some of the students there support the Sixers basketball team and they dance and cheerlead.
It was so good to be able to talk to kids from another country. All they seemed to do was laugh. That made us laugh too. They were easy to talk to and easy to understand. It was good to be able to see what kids our age are like, their interests and the way they look and speak. It was so good.
One let down for me was that the smart board had lines in it which annoyed me a bit. Another thing is that the time went too quick. Unfortunately we had recess and it was getting too late for them. I could have spent a lot longder talking to them.
It was so much better than the blogging thing we did with them becasue we got to see the actual people. The blogging was awsome but this was so much better.
Hope you guys from Collaboration Nation had as good of a time as I did! Enjoy your holidays. Think of us when your off relaxing while we are sitting in school, having fun!! I’m kidding school aint fun – not usually anyway. Enjoy!
June 13th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Great post flurogreen! You have made some wonderful points and I hope others will read this and be inspired to follow in the same types of projects. I agree entirely with you that it is so much ‘fun’ and yet I also learned so much eg I loved the way they sang their anthem with passion, Disneyland and Disneyworld, the Connecticut flag etc. Even though I have worked closely with their teacher over the last 6 or so weeks, it was great to actually see him and the students that we live blogged with. Thanks for all your help during the session.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Ashley from Collab nation and Ashleigh from my class want to make a skype call. How do we connect the smartboard and the microphone set up or did you use a mike in a laptop?
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